Also, Prince’s label had to mail out a bunch of floppy disks with the custom image on it. That fact makes me laugh.

1992. Guns N’ Roses releases their sweeping symphonic rock epic, November Rain. It has one of the most expensive and longest music videos of all time ($1.2 million, 9 min 8 sec). Also, a guy jumps on a cake for some reason.

When I was 10 there was nothing I wanted to do more than take a guitar solo while standing on a grand piano with a large orchestra behind me.

1991. Nirvana releases Nevermind. Grunge is in full swing and Nirvana is the master. This album has timeless hooks and incredible songwriting on everysinglesong.

1989. Madonna releases Like a Prayer and plays the MTV Music Awards. Though she already has 3 incredibly successful albums at this point, Like A Prayer erased any doubt that she is an unstoppable pop diva.

1986. Jello Biafra and Alternative Tentacles are dragged in to court and charged with “distributing harmful matter to minors” over the visual and lyrical content of the Dead Kennedys album Frankenchrist. After the police raid Biafra’s house and lawyers probe through the album, they remember there is some law or something that says you can’t censor that kind of stuff.

A lot of jerks were crazy about that stuff back then. Luckily they keep their dumb faces shut for the most part these days.

1985. Marty McFly travels back in time to 1955 to write Johnny B Goode for Chuck Berry. This was depicted in great detail in the documentary film, Back To the Future.

1981. MTV is launched. At first, it’s cool. But then we all know what happened. Ozzy Osbourne was one of the first to realize this. Immediately after MTV launched, he had visions of its fate, and he got so angry he bit the head off of a dove.

1980. The Cure releases their US Debut, Boys Don’t Cry, as they begin to explore offshoots of Punk and Post-Punk. Through this exploration they help define Gothic Rock and it becomes a thriving subculture, and Robert Smith is sad.

1977. Pink Floyd releases Animals,. They sang about pigs. And dogs. And sheep. But they mostly liked pigs. So much that they used giant inflatable ones both on their album art, and in real life at their shows during their In The Flesh tour that year.

1975. Kiss comes alive by releasing their breakthrough album: Alive! This pushes them to the next level of success and their shows become madhouses of people rocking and rolling all throughout the nite.

1968. Johnny Cash says hello to a bunch of inmates at Folsom State Prison in Folsom, California. Also he plays songs for them and they get excited and yell.
The concert is recorded and released the same year.

For some reason, not many other people made live prison albums.

1967. The Who play The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Keith Moon detonates his drum set right into Pete Townshend’s head, and gives him tinnitus.